Folks, I’m a long time lurker and very occasional poster who would very much appreciate the benefit of your collective Trek knowledge. Although I am a huge Trek fan, my fandom comes with an asterisk, which is that I have never seen the final four seasons of Voyager. Any other episode of Trek, I have seen anywhere from 2 to 6 times depending, but those 100 or so Voyager episodes, not once.
How could this be? Three reasons, really:
1) Voyager, based on the first three seasons anyway, is easily my least favorite of the Trek series. Other than Tuvok and the Doctor I wasn’t enthused by most of the cast but worse, I was disgusted by how little the show did with such a promising initial premise. Count me among the fans who would have loved to have seen more Starfleet/Maquis conflict, and increasingly desperate situations as the ship began to break down without proper repairs, as resources began to run out, as crewmembers were lost and it became more difficult to keep the ship running with so few. The fact that everything was kept light and congenial and the ship (and its shuttlecrafts) were seemingly reset to factory specs after every episode was highly disappointing to me.
2) Between seasons 3 and 4, I moved from an area that had a UPN affiliate to one that did not. Although a local station eventually picked up the show, by then I had missed an entire season and didn’t want to watch out of chronology. I figured I could always see the series later in reruns or on DVD, but to this day I haven’t.
3) Even though I now have Netflix and I can watch Voyager anytime I want, I haven’t yet because here’s the deal: although Enterprise has been off the air for nearly a decade, and there seems to be no real interest in bringing Star Trek in any form back to TV anytime soon, there are 100 already-produced episodes of Star Trek that I haven’t watched yet. And even though Voyager is far from my fav, that’s quite something to have in my back pocket. Now I almost never want to watch them because once I do then I will be in the same position as all of you, with no new Trek TV to look forward to.
So what I’m interested in doing for the moment is this: I would like to have a sort of marathon of key Seven of Nine episodes. Of all the great characters in the Trek pantheon, she is the only one I really don’t know much about at all, other than what I’ve read about her, because Jeri Ryan joined the show just as I stopped watching. I think it would be cool if, in a single burst, I could get a quick overview of what her character is like and how her story arc developed over the course of the show.
Obviously a board like this is the perfect place to put it to the experts as to what are the most important 8-12 episodes of Voyager that would best reflect Seven of Nine. If anyone would be willing to take the time to make some recommendations for my Seven binge, I would be most grateful and thanks in advance.
How could this be? Three reasons, really:
1) Voyager, based on the first three seasons anyway, is easily my least favorite of the Trek series. Other than Tuvok and the Doctor I wasn’t enthused by most of the cast but worse, I was disgusted by how little the show did with such a promising initial premise. Count me among the fans who would have loved to have seen more Starfleet/Maquis conflict, and increasingly desperate situations as the ship began to break down without proper repairs, as resources began to run out, as crewmembers were lost and it became more difficult to keep the ship running with so few. The fact that everything was kept light and congenial and the ship (and its shuttlecrafts) were seemingly reset to factory specs after every episode was highly disappointing to me.
2) Between seasons 3 and 4, I moved from an area that had a UPN affiliate to one that did not. Although a local station eventually picked up the show, by then I had missed an entire season and didn’t want to watch out of chronology. I figured I could always see the series later in reruns or on DVD, but to this day I haven’t.
3) Even though I now have Netflix and I can watch Voyager anytime I want, I haven’t yet because here’s the deal: although Enterprise has been off the air for nearly a decade, and there seems to be no real interest in bringing Star Trek in any form back to TV anytime soon, there are 100 already-produced episodes of Star Trek that I haven’t watched yet. And even though Voyager is far from my fav, that’s quite something to have in my back pocket. Now I almost never want to watch them because once I do then I will be in the same position as all of you, with no new Trek TV to look forward to.
So what I’m interested in doing for the moment is this: I would like to have a sort of marathon of key Seven of Nine episodes. Of all the great characters in the Trek pantheon, she is the only one I really don’t know much about at all, other than what I’ve read about her, because Jeri Ryan joined the show just as I stopped watching. I think it would be cool if, in a single burst, I could get a quick overview of what her character is like and how her story arc developed over the course of the show.
Obviously a board like this is the perfect place to put it to the experts as to what are the most important 8-12 episodes of Voyager that would best reflect Seven of Nine. If anyone would be willing to take the time to make some recommendations for my Seven binge, I would be most grateful and thanks in advance.
